Re: [PATCH 1/1] thermal: core: call thermal_zone_device_update() after mode update

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On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Because several drivers do the following pattern:
> .set_mode()
>    ...
>    local_data->mode = new_mode;
>    thermal_zone_device_update(tz);
>
> makes sense to simply do the thermal_zone_device_update()
> in thermal core, after setting the new mode.
>
> Also, this patch also remove deadlocks on drivers that
> call thermal_zone_device_update() on .set_mode(),
> as .set_mode()  is now called always with tz->lock held.

To me, this part of the patch is way more important than the
optimization mentioned before.

Apparently, the problem is that drivers deadlock, because the
thermal_zone_device_update() invoked from ->set_mode() is called under
tz->lock.

So to address that problem you make the core call
thermal_zone_device_update() after ->set_mode() outside of tz->lock
and the drivers don't have to do it any more.

Is that correct?

Thanks,
Rafael
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